Does anyone start from scratch?

All these beautiful bloggers showing me how to do anything from my hair to my outfit to my makeup, but I'm starting to feel like none of them are applicable to me. I can't be alone in this right? I mean, you see people in these beautiful places, with beautiful people and I even want to start doing it myself, but then I look at where I am in life. Years behind people my own age. I don't have my own place. I don't have a glamorous job, I don't even live anywhere particularly interesting. Yet. I keep saying, as soon as I get my own, as soon as I master, as soon as I etc etc.

I find it really hard to believe that these people got there on their own. Everyone needs help, and there’s no shame in that. But I feel like success in something like, blogging about a lifestyle, is you know. Having that lifestyle to blog about. No one wants to see my futon and my work uniform. No one wants to see themselves on screen. They want to see their fantasy lifestyle. No shame in that either.

There's nothing wrong with aspirations until you let them replace your own desires. Until you'd rather sit there and wish and hope and watch instead of do.

But then we're stuck in a loop right?

Because we can't blog about a life we don't have and we can't wait around forever either. So what's the solution for those of us not-as-financially-stable-as-we-could-be would be bloggers? Hell if I know.

The only thing I can think of, is to do whatever you want. And do it with quality and passion. I know, that sounds like such a cop out. I'm not saying start fabulously, or wait for that perfect moment when you'll suddenly just know exactly what your blog or website or book or short film or whatever you want to do will look like (come on we both know that isn't going to happen).
Start small. Start with one post every other week.

You have to start.
Even if it sucks. For people like me, who have no experience, nothing to offer the internet blogging world but an opinion no one asked for, working through experience is better than watching someone else.

You know, doing something all your own is better than wishing you had what you're not working for.